Bruce Lieberman

Stories by Bruce Lieberman

SAN MARCOS  Palomar College has scheduled a public meeting to discuss the acquisition of a property in Rancho Bernardo that eventually will serve as a satellite campus. The property is at 11111 Rancho Bernardo Road. Called Bernardo Terrace, the site includes an office building, parking garage and room to grow. The one-hour meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Rancho Bernardo-Glassman Recreation Center meeting room, 18448 West Bernardo Drive. For information, call ...

SAN MARCOS  Palomar College has scheduled a public meeting to discuss the acquisition of a property in Rancho Bernardo that will eventually serve as a satellite campus. Bernardo Terrace, which includes an office building, a parking garage and additional room to expand, is located at 11111 Rancho Bernardo Road. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday6-23 ﻿from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Rancho Bernardo-Glassman Recreation Center meeting room, 18448 West Bernardo Drive. For information, ...

San Marcos Unified School District and its teachers union have tentatively agreed to a contract that will avoid 40 classroom teacher layoffs. The catch: The district’s 900 teachers will have to take six furlough days in 2010-11, resulting in students having five fewer days of classroom time. The agreement, reached in recent days after weeks of negotiations, will help San Marcos close a $15 million budget deficit for 2010-11, which begins July 1, without laying ...

Jill Vinson Heichel, principal of Ada Harris Elementary School since 2003, will be the Cardiff School District’s new superintendent, the district has announced. Vinson Heichel, who begins at her new post in mid-July, will replace Tom Pellegrino, who left the district after three years to be superintendent of the Alpine Unified School District. The school board unanimously appointed Vinson Heichel on Tuesday. She was the only applicant the board considered. The terms of her contract ...

CARLSBAD  Parents led by the father of a boy who died of cancer late last year plan to push Carlsbad school district trustees ﻿to test the air, water and soil at an elementary school to see if any clues exist about a suspected cancer cluster. John Quartarone’s son, Chase, died at 16 in December after suffering from large B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Since then, Quartarone has led a community effort to pinpoint the causes of ...

DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO  Students terrified their parents will be deported. Day laborers afraid to call police because they lack green cards. Routine traffic stops may lead to deportations. These were among the stories shared with more than 1,000 people calling for comprehensive immigration reform at a rally Sunday. The gathering was coordinated by the San Diego Organizing Project, a faith-based community group. Sunday’s demonstration followed a rally Saturday at City Hall organized by the ...

San Diego  Police are searching for a man who was seen attacking a 14-year-old girl Sunday night near 41st Street and Monroe Avenue in the Normal Heights neighborhood. Police were called to the area about 9:35 p.m., where witnesses said the man threw the girl to the ground and was attempting to take her clothes off when someone chased him away, said San Diego Police Officer Dino Delimitros. Police spoke with the girl, and ...

San Diego  An unidentified individual was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle near the 6th Avenue ramp to north state Route 163 about 8:20 p.m. Sunday, authorities said. The person was taken by the San Diego Fire Rescue Department to Scripps Mercy Hospital for treatment. No further information was immediately available.

San Diego  A two-month long sweep that targeted drug dealers netted 43 arrrests, police said Sunday. The operation, which started in April, focused on downtown neighborhoods, including the C Street Corridor, East Village, Horton Plaza and Core-Columbia. San Diego police said they arrested the individuals on a variety of felonies for selling rock cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana. They were later indicted by a grand jury. Some of the suspects were affiliated with street gangs, ...

CARLSBAD  The Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad is facing another lawsuit alleging hazing of a cadet by his peers almost a decade ago. The attorney representing the plaintiff in the lawsuit, filed last month, said the military boarding school is corrupted by a culture of violence, cover-ups and inaction. The academy’s president, retired Army Gen. Stephen Bliss, said late Friday that he had not seen the lawsuit. The academy has strict standards of ...

VISTA  The Vista Unified School District and its teachers union have tentatively agreed on a new three-year contract, ending a rift in relations that had grown increasingly bitter. Teachers have been working under the terms of a contract that expired in 2007, and direct talks had stalled in December, setting the stage for a state mediator to intervene to work toward a resolution. That came May 27, when the two parties settled some of ...

CARLSBAD  The county on Friday issued a notice to doctors and hospitals to remind them to inform the state’s cancer registry of any patients from Carlsbad who have been diagnosed with cancer — part of a larger effort to answer community worries about the incidence of cancer in their neighborhoods, public health officials said. The notice, sent out on the California Health Alert Network, is intended to help the California Cancer Registry obtain the ...